BasKet Note Pads

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Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 11, 2012 at 12:24 PM

I must say it’s nice to see that BasKet Note Pads (http://basket.kde.org/screenshots.php) has been revived again. One of the great OneNote equivalents for Linux, it’s always been a favourite of mine. Unfortunately I tend to run Linux on older machines, and the overhead of KDE on top of the lightweight XFCE front end (by far the best one for older machines, IMHO) has meant that it’s not been desperately practical to run BasKet Note Pads. However, I’m currently toying with the idea of installing some version of Linux (possibly Mint) on my latest, greatest notebook (HP ProBook 4530s), which certainly wouldn’t give a fig for the modest overhead imposed by KDE. In which case BasKet Note Pads will be one of the first apps to be installed.

It’s not irrelevant to the discussion of two-pane PIMs, either. BasKet Note Pads is a classic two-pane PIM, but like OneNote and Foliaro, capable of managing one-pane outlines within its editor (right-hand) windows (you can position simple outlines anywhere you like on a page, in fact, just as you can in OneNote). It also has a very fast filtering option which frequently obviates the need for searching.

I “found” it again while searching for a Windows (yes, I know - easily distracted, moi?) equivalent to Curio 8, which looks spectacular. If there’s one solid reason for moving to Mac, Curio is probably it, in my view. Well, there are one or two other good reasons (OmniOutliner, perhaps), but Curio’s amazing combination of features is truly impressive. And unlike OneNote - which remains dependent on the generic Windows search engine - entirely self-contained.

Cheers,
Bill

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 11, 2012 at 01:40 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>However, I’m currently toying with the idea of installing some version of Linux (possibly Mint)
>on my latest, greatest notebook (HP ProBook 4530s), which certainly wouldn’t give a fig
>for the modest overhead imposed by KDE. In which case BasKet Note Pads will be one
>of the first apps to be installed.

Yes, yes, Mint, go for it! You’ll never look back :-)

What KDE overhead do you mean? KDE libraries needed for BasKet? Or do you mean you need to have the whole KDE enviornment installed? (I hope not).

There are Mint variations in several desktops, including KDE, but I believe the best is the Gnome 2.0 evolution (now MATE) which always has been Mint’s startinbg point.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 11, 2012 at 04:02 PM

Thanks for the encouragement - yes, the new Mint looks very… tasty.

As for KDE: it’s just the libraries, but on my elderly HP/IBM/Dell machines, that’s actually quite a heap of trouble. Put it this way: there’s enough overhead to slow down Xubuntu perceptibly (and Xubuntu, hitherto my Linux distro de choix, is normally pretty peppy, even on ancient machines).

But the new BasKet Note Pads looks very agreeable (the earlier version was already very stable and enjoyable to use).

As for Mate - I’m torn between that and the state-of-the-art Cinnamon front end. Cinnamon and mint… hm, acquired taste, perhaps? Have you played with Cinnamon at all?

Cheers!
Bill

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 11, 2012 at 08:51 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>As for Mate - I’m torn between that and the state-of-the-art Cinnamon
>front end. Cinnamon and mint… hm, acquired taste, perhaps? Have you
>played with Cinnamon at all?

Not really; one thing I resent is changing desktop environments (a rant of mine on the evolution of Windows is somewhere around here). I’ve worked on Gnome (up to 2.0) and XFCE and that’s enough. Apparently I’m not alone, as enough geeks preferred the previous incarnation of Gnome to keep it going as Mate. Maybe in a few years, if Cinnamon and Unity withstand the test of time, I will check them out…

Posted by jimspoon
Dec 24, 2012 at 09:01 PM

Hi Bill, this isn’t really about outliners or BasketNotes, but I did want to follow up on your comment that XFCE is the best desktop environment for old hardware. I’m thinking about installing Linux on some old hardware and so lightweight is what I would be looking for. I’ve seen XFCE on one of my brother’s computers, looks good. My question for you, is what distribution would you recommend for old hardware?

I just looked at this article - http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/best-linux-distro-2012-five-we-recommend-1090058 - and it recommends the Bodhi distro (based on Ubuntu) as the best for speed, using the Enlightenment desktop and the Midori web browser.

jim

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